The Two-Way posts about Grand Trunk Road
An image has stayed with me on our journey that took us the length of Grand Trunk Road: three girls squeezed upright into the back of rickshaw facing the traffic, bumping along in their black burqas. They were memorable not just for what they wer...
by Mark Memmott
From what sounds like a beautiful garden in Pakistan — a garden built for Mughal kings — Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep today wrapped up the show'sspecial reports about life along the Grand Trunk Road that stretches across India, Pakistan and o...
by David Gura
Observations on the food along the Grand Trunk Road.
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by Frank James
NPR journalists traveling in Pakistan spent some time Sunday at what could be called a wedding in the NPR family. Sajid Mahmood, our intrepid driver and house manager at NPR's Islamabad Bureau married off his sister-in-law at the family home in Ra...
by Frank James
"What's it like there?" That's the most common question I get from people. "There" being Pakistan, a country that is in the news every day but still seems such a mystery to us. Well some of it may seem more familiar to Americans than you might i...
by Mark Memmott
A young boy runs past a leather factory in Kanpur, India. (Photo by Kainaz Amaria for NPR) By Mark Memmott Life is not easy for many young people on the Grand Trunk Road in India. As regular readers know, NPR correspondents are taking...
by Mark Memmott
Morning Edition's series about life along the Grand Trunk Road continues.
by Mark Memmott
From a rooftop restaurant in Lahore, Pakistan, the view goes back across centuries.
by Mark Memmott
At the border. (Photo by John Poole/NPR) NPR correspondents are taking The Two-Way with them along the historic Grand Trunk Road that stretches from the Bay of Bengal in the east to the Hindu Kush mountains in the west, across the ...
by Mark Memmott
Recommended reading about India, Pakistan and the Grand Trunk Road, from the staff of Morning Edition.
by Mark Memmott
NPR's Tom Bullock, on assignment in Pakistan, is jokingly told by village elders that he looks like Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad.
by Mark Memmott
Photos from along the Grand Trunk Road.
by Mark Memmott
Along the Grand Trunk Road, Philip Reeves discovers why Punjabis like to put large, flamboyant statues atop their homes. They're status symbols.
by Mark Memmott
NPR producer Nishant Dahiya got the best shave of his life for a relative pittance as he traveled with NPR correspondents along the historic Grand Trunk Road that stretches from the Bay of Bengal to the Hindu Kush mountains, across the Indian subc...
by Mark Memmott
It is impossible to explore the route of the old Grand Trunk Road for very long without forming a deep admiration for one particular fellow traveler. The cyclist.
by Mark Memmott
NPR correspondents are taking The Two-Way with them along the historic Grand Trunk Road that stretches from the Bay of Bengal in the east to the Hindu Kush mountains in the west, across the Indian subcontinent. They're preparing an upcoming Mornin...
by Mark Memmott
In today's audio dispatch from along the Grand Trunk Road in India, Philip Reeves talks to us about what he says has been "one of the great mysteries" of the trip so far: "The strange reluctance of people we're trying to reach ... to tell us how t...
by Mark Memmott
The temple is just a mile from the Grand Trunk, but that's a huge distance for Sheila Devi. (Nishant Dahiya/NPR) NPR correspondents are taking The Two-Way with them along the historic Grand Trunk Road that stretches from the Bay of Beng...
by Mark Memmott
NPR's Philip Reeves talks to us — literally — as the car he's in takes a detour off the Grand Trunk for a visit to the city of Varanasi and gets caught in a snarl of traffic.
by Mark Memmott
PURANADIH, India — The world's strangest bar has no name. Nor does it have any chairs and tables, or cocktails and coasters. Yet there's no shortage of regulars. They include two large. fly-blown cows, three goats, and a thriving society of mice...
